Quotes about Devotion

The best gift you can give your spouse is to fear the God who made him or her. That's a gift that truly keeps on giving.

Building a sacred history together teaches us to be persistent in doing good, Even when we want to do something else.

Married life, offered in service to God, is such a good and rewarding life. Let's give ourselves fully to it; let's keep building our "marital house" until we die, pursuing each other, forgiving each other, loving each other, and growing together through the years. If we do this, we will, like Anne, be richly blessed with a lifelong love.

When you entered this relationship of marriage, you committed to keep moving toward your spouse. Any step back, any pause, any retreat, is an act of fraud. Learn to move toward the person God has given to you for the purpose of teaching you how to love.

Yes, they think that. They regard the intention of loyalty to a partnership for mutual help, for the preservation of chastity, and for the transmission of life, as something lower than a storm of emotion.

Infatuation fills your eyes with what you're getting, but let the Bible fill your mind with what you're committing to give.

life is richest when you give each moment of each day to God with the prayer, "Let me receive your love and pour it out on these people so that I can represent you every minute of the day."

Paul urges us to pray continually (1 Thessalonians 5:17). This puts prayer on a far higher plane than mere intercession. It marks prayer as the heart of our devotion, the constant awareness of God's presence, our consistent submission to his will, and our frequent expressions of adoration and praise.

But ask God to help you. Partner with him to build up and encourage the person with whom you've chosen to spend the rest of your life. Ask. "How can I love my spouse today like he [or she] has never been or ever will be loved?" When we focus on what we can do, it's amazing how little time we have left to become consumed by our disappointments.

2 Thessalonians 3:5: "May the Lord direct your hearts into God's love and Christ's perseverance.

What if exercise and discipline in eating isn't as much about physical health as about honoring the God who made us?

Ascetics are "strict" only because they want to reserve a major portion of their lives for their passionate pursuit of God.